Social Commentaries
Proverb 4: A breach is every day
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From God, Soul, and World
Social Commentaries
A BREACH is every day,
By many a mortal storm'd;
Let them fall in the gaps as they may,
Yet a heap of dead is ne'er form'd.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Proverb 4: A breach is every day.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/269/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Proverb 4: A breach is every day.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/269/.
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